IV.2.1.a. THE METAMORPHOSIS SEEN UP CLOSE

MENU: 4.2.1.a. Metamorphosis seen up close

IMAGINE THE ELITES' IMMEDIATE CONCERN: PARIS'S  

MEDIEVAL INFRASTRUCTURE OR REVOLUTION BY WORKING-CLASS "BARBARIANS"?

Observing the changes shows that modernization was grafted onto military measures, but that those came first.  

Claude Abron

Why the colossal 19th-century esplanade? 

In brief

• "An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park 

•  Open the town to the army 

• A military network at the city's heart

• A fountain where the Emperor crushes Socialism

• The new arteries' military purpose

• A "masterly line" cuts through the working-class east

• Blue-collar neighborhoods' vast open spaces

• Huge "places" and power symbols

• The exception across the river  

• At Notre-Dame Cathedral, repression replaces eternity 

• Planing Latin Quarter bombardment has happy results

• The hospital garden 

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